rasoir électrique
\ʁa.zwa.ʁ‿e.lɛk.tʁik\
The verdict
“rasoir électrique” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Appareil de rasage utilisé généralement pour raser les poils de barbe. Il se compose d'un ensemble de lames derrière une grille d'une extrême finesse. Les lames sont animées soit d'un mouvement cir...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rasoir électrique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.zwa.ʁ‿e.lɛk.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rasoir électrique” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rasoir électrique is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.zwa.ʁ‿e.lɛk.tʁik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Appareil de rasage utilisé généralement pour raser les poils de barbe. Il se compose d'un ensemble de lames derrière une grille d'une extrême finesse. Les lames sont animées soit d'un mouvement cir...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for rasoir électrique in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rasoir électrique, spelled R-A-S-O-I-R- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Appareil de rasage utilisé généralement pour raser les poils de barbe. Il se compose d'un ensemble de lames derrière une grille d'une extrême finesse. Les lames sont animées soit d'un mouvement circulaire, soit d'un mouvement linéaire en va-et-vient, par un moteur électrique.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is R-A-S-O-I-R- -É-L-E-C-T-R-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.